Catherine Lynch is Emeritus in the History Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, and Research Fellow in the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.Robert B. Marks is the Richard and Billie Deihl Professor of History at Whittier College.Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies and holder of the Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego.

In this welcome collection of essays, the authors examine many of the issues with which Meisner grappled, from Mao’s utopianism and the role of peasants in the Chinese revolution to China’s relation to American imperialism. This work is especially noteworthy not only because these topics remain relevant today but also because the essays cohere around an important theme: how to understand the legacy of the Chinese Revolution, both historically and with respect to the present.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Chinese Radicalism in Historical ContextChapter 2 Chapter 1. Individualism and Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century China: Chen Duxiu's Pre-Marxist Intellectual Commitments, 1904-1918Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang ShumingChapter 4 Chapter 3. Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s-1950sChapter 5 Chapter 4. Mao and TibetChapter 6 Chapter 5. Chinese Communists and the EnvironmentChapter 7 Chapter 6. Post-Socialist Capitalism in Contemporary ChinaChapter 8 Chapter 7. Independent Chinese Film: Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible in Rural ChinaChapter 9 Chapter 8. The "Rise of China"?

Catherine Lynch is Emeritus in the History Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, and Research Fellow in the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.Robert B. Marks is the Richard and Billie Deihl Professor of History at Whittier College.Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies and holder of the Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego.

In this welcome collection of essays, the authors examine many of the issues with which Meisner grappled, from Mao’s utopianism and the role of peasants in the Chinese revolution to China’s relation to American imperialism. This work is especially noteworthy not only because these topics remain relevant today but also because the essays cohere around an important theme: how to understand the legacy of the Chinese Revolution, both historically and with respect to the present.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Chinese Radicalism in Historical ContextChapter 2 Chapter 1. Individualism and Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century China: Chen Duxiu's Pre-Marxist Intellectual Commitments, 1904-1918Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang ShumingChapter 4 Chapter 3. Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s-1950sChapter 5 Chapter 4. Mao and TibetChapter 6 Chapter 5. Chinese Communists and the EnvironmentChapter 7 Chapter 6. Post-Socialist Capitalism in Contemporary ChinaChapter 8 Chapter 7. Independent Chinese Film: Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible in Rural ChinaChapter 9 Chapter 8. The "Rise of China"?

Catherine Lynch is Emeritus in the History Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, and Research Fellow in the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.Robert B. Marks is the Richard and Billie Deihl Professor of History at Whittier College.Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies and holder of the Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego.

In this welcome collection of essays, the authors examine many of the issues with which Meisner grappled, from Mao’s utopianism and the role of peasants in the Chinese revolution to China’s relation to American imperialism. This work is especially noteworthy not only because these topics remain relevant today but also because the essays cohere around an important theme: how to understand the legacy of the Chinese Revolution, both historically and with respect to the present.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Chinese Radicalism in Historical ContextChapter 2 Chapter 1. Individualism and Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century China: Chen Duxiu's Pre-Marxist Intellectual Commitments, 1904-1918Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang ShumingChapter 4 Chapter 3. Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s-1950sChapter 5 Chapter 4. Mao and TibetChapter 6 Chapter 5. Chinese Communists and the EnvironmentChapter 7 Chapter 6. Post-Socialist Capitalism in Contemporary ChinaChapter 8 Chapter 7. Independent Chinese Film: Seeing the Not-Usually-Visible in Rural ChinaChapter 9 Chapter 8. The "Rise of China"?